Friday, September 26, 2014

thick and heavy


Today on my walk, I passed by this:




The words made me think.

I wondered who wrote it? 
I wondered how they are doing? 
I wondered if they are still writing? 

I certainly hope so.

Saturday, September 6, 2014

collectors




I’m curious about people who collect things. While I was at an SCBWI writing conference this summer, author/illustrator Judy Schachner described her creative process as an act of collecting. She creates characters by collecting and collaging images. I love this idea! So much, I began to search the Internet for things that people collect. Here’s a few of my favorites:

alarm clocks
baseball cards
bumper stickers
coins
Cracker Jack prizes
dried flowers
garden gnomes
guitars
insects
lunch boxes
marbles
mason jars
rocks
sea shells
stickers
t-shirts
vinyl records

Another thing I’d like to add to this list is... words. That’s what I collect.

In third grade, I started my first journal. Since then, I’ve accumulated dozens of journals, filled with thousands and thousands of words. Interestingly enough, I rarely reread what I’ve written. I don’t keep the journals to look over my past. Instead, I keep them because they mark time. I look at the big stack and see the years I’ve lived and the things I have inside me.

How about you? Are you a collector? What do you collect?

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

word of the week


Our Word of the Week


that I added to the fish bowl on my desk


is...



become (verb) 1. to grow or come to be  2. to be appropriate or suitable to  
3. to show to advantage; look good with